Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants | Date | Tue, 15 May 2001 21:58:46 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > else > > error > > Ugh. You do this?
Lots of apps do it - hdparm, mt-st, lilo
> The fix, I think, is to make the ioctl commands much more regular. That is > probably true in general, and fixing that would hopefully fix the need for > horrible code like the above.
Definitely. Some of it would remain but it becomes
if(ioctl(foo)==-EOPNOTSUPP) bang_it_nby_hand()
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